🌟 𝘽𝙊𝙎𝘾𝙊 🌟

"𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤."
(𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭)

🔸 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 is the last track of 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒, the 7th album by 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜. It's an almost 7 minute long piano melody composed by 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙. It is one of the first song to be written for 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒, with the eponymous track.

The character in the song is calling for redemption because of his bad habits due to alcohol addiction and nasty behaviour towards his loved one. According to 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 is the most personal song he had ever written and his apology is directed " 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 ". 🔸

Bosco 🎥 https://bit.ly/3o9nkg1 🎵

Photo credit: Jospeh Llanes, Screenshots from the video, edit by Laetitia

⭐ 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 ⭐

🔸 The video was directed by 𝐾𝑦𝑙𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑟 and and released on March 2014. It tells a very interesting and tragic story: the worst disappointments and desillusions in love.

Alternate video 🎥 https://bit.ly/3wq2qNq 🎵


🔸 The song has been played only once live, during the 𝑀𝑇𝑉 𝑈𝑛𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑 session. Recorded on 19 August 2015 at The London Studios. 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 said about this recording:

"We wanted to do something extraordinary, something that would challenge us. The process has been interesting, because we were creating something while we were performing it. That was something we had never done before. The simultaneity of the performance and the creation process was completely new for us.”

(𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥)

Live MTV Unplugged 🎥 https://bit.ly/3BTTxN9 🎵

🔸 There are many quotes from the band about 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 which give lots of details on what the song is about and how important this particular song is for 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛, also on the writing process.

𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚, 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙦𝙪𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 ! 🔸

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 ⭐

📢 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐. [...] 𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕, 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 ?

💬 Very melancholic. It's about a relationship that is completely torn apart by addiction. It's not a depressing song. The fact that the narrator asks for forgiveness is very significant, as I said before, it's a desire to find some redemption.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘳𝘦̀𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘦̀𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦́𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘙𝘛𝘓2 - 2013)


📢 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐. 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 ?

💬 This is my apology to a very special person who must remain anonymous but... I am in all honesty, there is no story and no narrator. Therefore, it is still very difficult for me to hear Bosco without tears coming to my eyes.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, 𝘒𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳)


📢 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 ?
💬 Bosco .

📢 𝑨𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 ?
💬 For me, 𝐵𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. It sounds the least like Placebo. It is a piano song with strings. There's hardly any guitar on it. It's very minimalist. It's very long . I think it's the one song that can transcend our identity and exist in its own context, without the necessary context of the band to give it meaning . Every band tries to write that one classic song and if you're lucky, you get to do it once in your career . Fleetwood Mac have done it many times, but they're geniuses. We may have got close to that classic song with Bosco. It may not be super classic because it's seven minutes long but that felt like the right amount of time to tell the story that needed to be told.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢, 2013)

📢 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 " 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 ...
💬 This is a very sad song , tragic, the devastating effect of addiction on a relationship. This song makes me cry. This is one of the most honest and vulnerable song in our career. We managed to create a song that can exist outside the context of Placebo.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘓𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘪𝘳)

💬 It is probably the most honest I have ever been in a song. It's a process of catharsis and absolutely and very much directed at one person in particular.

You can write as many songs as you want to make amends to people you have hurt in your life but truthfully, the only amends that count is the living amend. It's how you behave in the future.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴.𝘤𝘰𝘮.𝘢𝘶)

💬 "I think every band tries to replicate their own identity in their songs . I would say that Bosco is definitely one of those songs."
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘒𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦.𝘢𝘵)

📢 𝑾𝒉𝒐'𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒌... ?
💬 (long awkward silence) It's hard, very hard to answer this question. It's such a personal text ... It's full of regrets ... I think it's the most intimate and honest song I have ever written. The song is a way to offer my sincere apologies to someone ... It would be too difficult for me to tell more about it, I'm unable to give more details. I've never been this vulnerable in a song. With hindsight, I believe in the "Nancy Boy" era, in the 90's, I never thought our band would be able to do a song like "Bosco". It's so far from where we started ...
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘔𝘢𝘨, 2013)

📢 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏.
💬 I didn’t know that…

📢 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 ‘𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐’ 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 ? 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝑫𝒐𝒏 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐, 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒖𝒎…
💬 Yeah, in Spain too. I think it’s also an Italian wine; it means ‘forest’ in Italy. In fact since Stefan started playing the piano on this song, he chose to give this name to the melody; then I wrote the lyrics. We couldn’t find a better title so we thought we should keep it; it’s quite abstract…there’s some sort of mystery in it. It can be interpreted in hundred ways and we love that ambiguity, the mystery that surrounds it. So we kept it.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘍𝘔, 2013)

💬 It's about a tragic relationship , torn by addiction . It also speaks of the search for redemption , and asking for forgiveness .
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴)

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

⭐ 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 ⭐

💬 For me, the song that has a special place in my heart is Bosco. I remember the time that we wrote that song and it was in a very early stages of the album. I wrote the music and Brian was: “That is very beautiful. I have to write something that matches that.” So when he came in that day he said “Stef, I written the lyrics and let me know what you think ?” And he sang that song and I felt like my heart has been crushed, In a good way. Bosco is melancholic and beautiful at the same time. I think it’s that fine line about being in a dark place or sort of tackling that dark side of our emotions but doing it in a poetic way. And it’s about accepting those are the kind of feelings we all experience and rather than trying to shut them out by some form of substance or blocking them out with denial, it just tells you to let yourself to live through the process and moment. I think lyrics do that for him (Brian) as well. It’s a way for him to open up.
(𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭 - 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳)


⭐ 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 ⭐

"𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒓𝒚"... Our dear 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 had to precise this has nothing to do with mosquitoes or vampires ! 😄
💬 “It’s more or less about a failed relationship, maybe. Brian writes the lyrics so he can tell you more in depth but I don’t think it’s about a mosquito.”

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

⭐ 𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐑 ⭐

🔸 All these quotes are very, very serious but.... have you ever read that funny answer by 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 at Linea Rock in 2013 ? When Barbara Caserta asked 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 about the song, he replied in an ironic and amused tone:

💬 "We wrote that in an Italian forrest, that's why it's called Bosco.

📢 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 ?
💬 We built campfire, we took magic mushrooms and we put face paint on and we did a sort of shamanic ritual in the Italian forrest and people from the other side, from another universe, sort of came and they took our hands and they placed them on a little miniature piano and we wrote that way"
(𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬 - 2013)

𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜 ! 😄 🔸

🔸 The vocals and lyrics provide this track a total sincere and touching dimension, as if it were all a matter of life and death (by which I mean mental). The call for redemption is emphasised by the dominant piano and the strings which add a genuine and honest dramatic inflection. All this adds depth to the theme of alcoholism and the harm it can do to a couple.

We will never know if the person Brian is talking to has forgiven him...

I hope so. 🔸

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